Principal Software Engineer Backend Social Identity
Principal Software Engineer Backend Social Identity
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Job Description
As a Principal Software Engineer on the Social Identity team you will define the backend systems that empower Roblox players creators influencers and brands to build a compelling identity on Roblox. You will tech lead the engineering team influence service architecture designs and guide the teams roadmap.
Your work will power the Roblox ecosystem helping people recognize and connect with friends & interests on Roblox express themselves and discover & engage with the best of Roblox through their connections. You will own critical features used by millions of users daily such as profiles names online presence coplay tools and social proof as well as develop new zerotoone features. You will drive companylevel objectives for user engagement.
If you are an experienced developer with a deep understanding of large scale systems and enjoy shaping engineering vision youll be right at home within our highlyskilled and productfocused team.
This role is based at Roblox HQ in San Mateo CA (no remote option).
You Will:
- Tech lead a team of 9 engineers.
- Lead the design and implementation of scalable backend systems to support hundreds of millions of users.
- Enforce high quality standards throughout feature development and iteration.
- Collaborate with other engineering product and design teams to define and build platform features to enable users to express their identities
- Mentor engineers and uplevel the team
You Have:
- 8 years of experience designing building and supporting highly available and largescale distributed fault tolerant services in production environments
- Extensive knowledge of serverside architecture and design principles with proficiency in compiled languages such as C# Java C or others.
- Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field.
- (Bonus) Experience with social products such as Profiles is a plus.
You Are:
- Proactive: You operate with a sense of urgency initiating conversations and workflow that pushes team projects and people forward
- A Leader: You have initiated and facilitated challenging technical decisions across multiple teams and organizations.
- Spy: You are willing to dive into any tech stack to solve problems and can easily adapt to any situation when the need arises and come up with the right solution.
- A product owner: You champion for changes that align with the needs of our users
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full Time
